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...players grin eerily out into space. Sometimes they beat the walls with sticks. Sometimes, they pick a victim and surround him, chanting. When they get really upset, they take off their clothes. And as punked-out zombies scream from the stage, alternately mocking and seducing the audience, our exclusion becomes part of the thrill...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Bowie Worship | 4/23/1982 | See Source »

...Dede Schmeiner) and Nanthias (David de Berker) as the god and her servant, each display distinctive brands of comedy. Schmeiner makes her Dionysus an impish figure, a lusty Peter Pan, while her slave opts for a broader comic style, occasionally reminiscent of the Three Stooges. These two mug and grin at each other and, since the Fogg's courtyard leaves both stage and seating level, often draw the audience in on their jokes and jibes. At times their humor is more visual than verbal. Both exhibit the gestures of competent mines, and Mary Fedor's choreography proves their agile, almost...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Frogs on Exhibit | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...their German shepherds, Bob and Stan. Dogs are a major topic of Letterman's comedy, and absence from Bob and Stan may help drive Letterman and Late Night to California. For now, though, there is plenty to smile about-and Letterman does, with his patented platypus grin. "I just want to make the show as playful as possible," he says. And why not? Hey folks, it's only Network Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Fernwood 4-Real | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Looking up with broad grin, Herlihy responded, "Just trying to keep up with you, Captain...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Kim Johnson | 3/4/1982 | See Source »

That big blond cowboy with the evil grin is Ramrod (Wings Hauser), who manages a stable of prostitutes. He says he loves them, often he beats them, sometimes they die. Tonight, Ramrod is feeling meaner than usual. Seems that Princess (Season Hubley), the proverbial whore with a heart of depreciated gold, has set him up for the boys in blue. Time she was taught a fatal lesson, if Ramrod can just find her. And he will, using all the resources of his psychopathy-unless the vice squad finds him first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the R: Vice Squad | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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